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LizardFS in Orange

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Szymon Haly

Orange Polska is one of Poland's largest telecommunications companies serving over 15 million customers. It needed a highly scalable storage solution to manage increasing data volumes. Traditional disk arrays did not offer sufficient scalability or flexibility. Orange implemented a storage infrastructure using LizardFS software-defined storage, which uses commodity hardware and is not dependent on any vendor. This provided a solution that was efficient, highly available, low cost and could scale easily to meet Orange's expanding needs. The infrastructure consisted of 6 storage nodes serving 500TB of data.

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Overview Orange Polska is one of Polands biggest telecommunication companies serving more than 15 million customers. It is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, and employs over 34 000 people. Being active in numerous business fields; including the provision of mobile and Internet network services, television and energy. Orange Polska is also supported by a highly scalable IT infrastructure that uses a number versatile solutions. Business challenge Orange Polskas services and customer base are constantly expanding, meaning the quantity of data generated is always increasing.Orange uses Elasticsearch,a tool used for analyzing big data that requires a highly flexible storage solution. The solution has to be able to serve data efficiently, be scalable, without downtime and have a low cost per TB. Because the storage infrastructure needs to be highly scalable, Orange did not consider traditional disk arrays because of prohibitively expensive pricing and limited scalability presented significant obstacles. Orange decided that a new, fresh approach needed to be taken. Solution When in need of versatility, software-defined storage LizardFS brings an unparalleled value. LizardFS entire approach to storage infrastructure is innovative; as the solution is entirely hardware transparent and allows Orange to use commodity hardware. Thus freeing them from vendor lock-in, and bringing significant cost reduction in terms of hardware and ongoing maintenance. Customer: Orange Polska Solution: LizardFS, NL-SAS, 10G Network, storage nodes with 500 TB Benefits: scalability, efficiency, data loss prevention, no downtime, open- source, no vendor lock-in LIZARDFS & ORANGE POLSKA
Orange opted for NL-SAS disks, thus allowing for a high IOPS output. The overall performance achieved was not only the result of the type of disks used or the 10G network but in great part due to the unique way LizardFS processes and serves data. When written each file is divided into parts (chunks) before being stored on numerous disks and nodes.This in turn allows the chunks to be accessed simultaneously. Furthermore, with help of erasure coding and the high availability feature set, the data is always accessible - even in case of a storage node failure, the storage infrastructure continues to be highly available. The remaining nodes will automatically start to re-establish the originally set level of replication policy by moving data onto available drives. Summary In its finality the storage infrastructure implemented for Orange Polska consisted of 6 storage nodes serving approximately 500 TB of data. LizardFS fulfilled the needs of Orange by delivering an efficient, highly available, competitively priced storage solution. Furthermore, the inherent scalability of this solution makes further, ongoing growth of the storage infrastructure possible. We have a clear goal which we have set ourselves-to deliver the best Software Defined Storage solution. However, we know even when we reach our current objective, we will not stop innovating. Check out the new version of LizardFS and judge for yourself. LizardFS is available on the official Debian and Ubuntu repositories. Skytechnology sp. z o.o. st. Gogowa 21, 02-639 Warszawa Tel: (+48) 22 100 32 48 Tel: (+1) 646 655 0 693 E-mail: info@lizardfs.com www.lizardfs.com lizardfs-org @LizardFS LizardFS surprised us by its performance and flexibility. We are still finding new areas in which this great solution can be implemented. Tomasz Sucharzewski, Lead Solution Architect, Orange Polska. We are so proud to fulfill the high expectations of yet another customer. This is proof of what we can achieve by working closely together, resulting in an excellent value to their business. Szymon Haly, Chief Satisfaction Officer, LizardFS.

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LizardFS in Orange

  • 1. Overview Orange Polska is one of Polands biggest telecommunication companies serving more than 15 million customers. It is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange, and employs over 34 000 people. Being active in numerous business fields; including the provision of mobile and Internet network services, television and energy. Orange Polska is also supported by a highly scalable IT infrastructure that uses a number versatile solutions. Business challenge Orange Polskas services and customer base are constantly expanding, meaning the quantity of data generated is always increasing.Orange uses Elasticsearch,a tool used for analyzing big data that requires a highly flexible storage solution. The solution has to be able to serve data efficiently, be scalable, without downtime and have a low cost per TB. Because the storage infrastructure needs to be highly scalable, Orange did not consider traditional disk arrays because of prohibitively expensive pricing and limited scalability presented significant obstacles. Orange decided that a new, fresh approach needed to be taken. Solution When in need of versatility, software-defined storage LizardFS brings an unparalleled value. LizardFS entire approach to storage infrastructure is innovative; as the solution is entirely hardware transparent and allows Orange to use commodity hardware. Thus freeing them from vendor lock-in, and bringing significant cost reduction in terms of hardware and ongoing maintenance. Customer: Orange Polska Solution: LizardFS, NL-SAS, 10G Network, storage nodes with 500 TB Benefits: scalability, efficiency, data loss prevention, no downtime, open- source, no vendor lock-in LIZARDFS & ORANGE POLSKA
  • 2. Orange opted for NL-SAS disks, thus allowing for a high IOPS output. The overall performance achieved was not only the result of the type of disks used or the 10G network but in great part due to the unique way LizardFS processes and serves data. When written each file is divided into parts (chunks) before being stored on numerous disks and nodes.This in turn allows the chunks to be accessed simultaneously. Furthermore, with help of erasure coding and the high availability feature set, the data is always accessible - even in case of a storage node failure, the storage infrastructure continues to be highly available. The remaining nodes will automatically start to re-establish the originally set level of replication policy by moving data onto available drives. Summary In its finality the storage infrastructure implemented for Orange Polska consisted of 6 storage nodes serving approximately 500 TB of data. LizardFS fulfilled the needs of Orange by delivering an efficient, highly available, competitively priced storage solution. Furthermore, the inherent scalability of this solution makes further, ongoing growth of the storage infrastructure possible. We have a clear goal which we have set ourselves-to deliver the best Software Defined Storage solution. However, we know even when we reach our current objective, we will not stop innovating. Check out the new version of LizardFS and judge for yourself. LizardFS is available on the official Debian and Ubuntu repositories. Skytechnology sp. z o.o. st. Gogowa 21, 02-639 Warszawa Tel: (+48) 22 100 32 48 Tel: (+1) 646 655 0 693 E-mail: info@lizardfs.com www.lizardfs.com lizardfs-org @LizardFS LizardFS surprised us by its performance and flexibility. We are still finding new areas in which this great solution can be implemented. Tomasz Sucharzewski, Lead Solution Architect, Orange Polska. We are so proud to fulfill the high expectations of yet another customer. This is proof of what we can achieve by working closely together, resulting in an excellent value to their business. Szymon Haly, Chief Satisfaction Officer, LizardFS.